Jacobson introduced the concept of K-rings, continuing the investigation of Kaplansky and Herstein into the commutativity of rings. In this note we focus on the ring-theoretic properties of K-rings. We first construct basic examples of K-rings to be handled easily. It is shown that a semiprime K-ring of bounded index of nilpotency is a commutative domain. It is proved that if R is a prime K-rin...